Foraging Bumble Bees Weigh the Reliability of Personal and Social Information
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Foraging Bumble Bees Weigh the Reliability of Personal and Social Information
Many animals, including insects, make decisions using both personally gathered information and social information derived from the behavior of other, usually conspecific, individuals [1]. Moreover, animals adjust use of social versus personal information appropriately under a variety of experimental conditions [2-5]. An important factor in how information is used is the information's reliabilit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.009